Recycling
City Lit: Through the Mill
Keith Kloor |
Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism, by Allen Hershkowitz, and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze, by Lis Harris.
Michael Bloomberg
Wretched Refuse
Keith Kloor |
New York City’s garbage wars have been fought over who bears the biggest burden within the five boroughs. But the Pennsylvania towns that are a final resting place for our trash have their own point of view on environmental justice.
City Lit: Wholly Moses
Keith Kloor |
The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t, By Alexander Garvin.
City Lit: The War on Cities
Keith Kloor |
A book review of Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950, By Robert M. Fogelson, Yale University Press, $35, 492 pages.
Citywide
The Big Idea: Hedge City
Keith Kloor |
Just recently, there was a growing consensus that a healthy city economy included outer-borough development. On September 11, that idea suddenly became grounds for ridicule.
City Lit: Heavy Suburban
Keith Kloor |
A book review of How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken, by Alex Marshall University of Texas Press, 269 pages, $24.95.
Policy Link
Growing In
Keith Kloor |
To its Harlem neighbors, P.S. 90 is just another abandoned monstrosity. But a group of community developers believes it holds answers to a pair of the era’s most vexing problems: urban underinvestment and suburban sprawl.
